Super Tuesday

[dailybinx]

Voting is important to me. I believe any political opinion, whether formed from tea leaves, coin flips, or spending the afternoon reading voter pamphlets and watching speeches on YouTube, only counts if you choose to exercise your right to vote. This is especially true this year because the candidates can be described with words other than

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[southernpm]

I thought I was liberal until I moved to SF. Hippies! LOL

I know, right.

[danthmanes]

Thank you for sharing that. I think I've reached a similar conclusion on Obama vs. Clinton, though I'm still torn.

The Indian gaming business is confusing. It does cut direct funding to the SDF, as you mentioned, but it increases funds to the CA general fund, which still *could* be used to fund the same things the SDF did (but could also be used for other priorities). Still undecided on that.

As for Prop 92, I agree that the current fees would probably be reasonable for the average person, but I think they should be reasonable to everyone. Education is *that* important.

On Prop 93, my reading of it is that it allows more time in any one chamber but reduces total time in the legislature as a whole. Seems like a fair compromise to me. With the current law, a politician who wants to serve a full 14 years would have to switch chambers midway through and learn a whole new set of business rules. Seems silly to me.

[huckie]

Have you checked to see what the cost of community college is? A full semester (16 hours) at community college is $416 with the fee hike. If you had to take student loans to do 4 years, you'd be saddled with a whopping $3500 in debt. Less than what a CSU or UC student racks up in a single semester.

With students coming out with well over $100K in debt these days, I have a hard time feeling sorry for the plight of the community college student. I paid well over $30 a credit nearly 20 years ago to attend a community college in IL. I'd say that the costs are pretty low here. I agree we should keep them as low as possible, but the simple fact is that the money for Community Colleges, CSUs, and UCs, all come out of the same pot. If you pass a law that says one can't have a fee hike, then the others must bear the full costs when the state cuts education funding or fails to keep up with inflation.

As for term limits, I'd be more apt to vote for the prop if they had labeled it correctly...as a prop to increase term limits. The

[danthmanes]

When it comes to community colleges, I view it much like high school. I wouldn't be opposed to it being free. I admit I probably sound a little radical, but I don't care. The United States has been falling behind the rest of the industrialized world in education, and that needs to stop. The concern for me about this proposition, though, is what happens to K-12 students. The school teachers seem to have an issue against this, and I'm not quite sure why yet (since the bill *seems* to keep funding the same for them). A teacher friend of mine is going to get back to me on that.

I do agree that the prop on term limits is misleading, but I believe in the underlying premise. If you restrict terms too much, the lack of continuity hurts the ability of the legislature to get things done. You need a balance between experience and new ideas.

[blueauraboy]

You kids and your propositions... ever heard of the tyranny of the majority?

I too support Obama. Though I'm sad to see your state does not!

[dailybinx]

As usual, I was outvoted. In fact, most of the props ended up passing. We need a plague to thin out the baby boomers.

[blueauraboy]

Well it's called "old age" but it's a very slow-acting plague.

[stloup77]

Hey nice meeting you last night, ENFP! I added ya.